Word: playboyism
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...Zahedi, 48, escort of beautiful women-last year's favorite was Elizabeth Taylor-lavish dispenser of caviar, which he delivers to friends by liveried chauffeur, former husband of the daughter of the Shah of Iran and probably Washington's best-known diplomat and partygiver. Hidden by his playboy image is his tremendous competence as an ambassador. He is also the chairman of the board of governors of the Islamic Center...
...underlying principle of all successful sex magazines, from the relatively tame Playboy to the raunchy Stag and Cheri, hinges on the absolute degradation of women. Page after page shows women being strung up, knocked down, beaten with objects too numerous to mention, pierced in places too delicate to mention, and I would go on, but I have my roommates to consider. When Nora Ephron withdrew her name from a newspaper advertisement protesting Larry Flynt's conviction, I do not think she was especially offended by the "blue collar" sensibilities of Hustler. I do not think sophisticated French pronography would have...
...blue-collar angle to Hustler does, however, yield some interesting results. It is the only porn magazine which does not equate sex with money. Unlike Playboy, Penthouse, Oui and Gallery (the other four in the big five) the pictorials are not filled with feather-bedecked women waiting in expensively decorated apartments for well-dressed, well-tanned young men. Hustler accepts no liquor or cigarette advertising, the mainstays of men's magazines. Whether this is done for moral reasons or as a neat stratagem for future court cases is impossible to say, but the absence of Winston and Salem men fits...
Apparently so. Hustler's circulation has climbed in 32 months to nearly 2 million, behind only Penthouse (4.6 million) and Playboy (5.7 million). Nearly all copies of Hustler are offered on newsstands, and most of its advertising is for Flynt-marketed dildos, vibrators and other such recreational equipment. The publisher, who owns his magazine outright, claims he netted $20 million last year, two-thirds of it from Hustler, the rest from his sexual devices and from Chic, a slightly flossier Los Angeles-based sibling magazine he launched last summer...
Haley began getting regular assignments from the Reader's Digest and later Playboy, where he inadvertently created that magazine's monthly interview format while doing a piece on Jazz Trumpeter Miles Davis. Another of his subjects was Black Muslim Leader Malcolm X, which led to his first book. Published in 1965, The Autobiography of Malcolm X became a 6-million-copy bestseller...